Chris Bartram writes:
> Yes - ht:dig! We use it on our Unix servers as a search engine; source is
> available (public domain)... and it doesn't seem to do anything REALLY
> tricky, so a knowledgable porter (which I'm *not*) might be able to port
> it pretty easily.

I was going to mention htdig, but you beat me to it.

You'd also have to port GDBM or DBM or DB (?) to be used as the back-end
database.  Since those routines are just disk file I/O, it shouldn't be
too tough.

The main part of htdig might have well-known socket and network issues to
deal with, but should mostly consist of more mundane porting issues.

> They're running on Unix boxes now, but I'd love to move 'em over to a 3000...
> if someone would port them! ;-)

Don't look at me.  ;-)

Give it a try yourself.  It's not as hard as you think.  I have the core NTP
functionality working after only a week.

Multi-platform porting knowledge could be mighty useful and profitable for a
software vendor.....
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